The Turkish spoken in the Ottoman Empire (called Ottoman Turkish) used a modified version of the Arabic alphabet . In 1928 however, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , as a part of his efforts to modernize Turkey, illegalized the Arabic alphabet, replacing it with a modified version of the Latin alphabet.

Classification Turkish is a member of the Turkish family of languages, which includes Balkan Gagauz Turkish , Gagauz , and Khorosani Turkish in addition to Turkish. The Turkish family is a subgroup of the Southern Turkic languages , which is a member of the Altaic language family .
Sounds One of the characteristic features of Turkish is the vowel harmony (if the first vowel of a Turkish word is a front vowel, the second and other vowels of the same word are usually the same vowel or another front vowel; e.g. Erdem). G g ( G – breve ) are letters used in Turkish , Azeri , Tatar languages .

g (yumusak ge, “soft G”) has no independent pronunciation in Turkish, but rather indicates a lengthening of the preceding vowel. Example: Elmadag. The effect can be compared to the vowel-lengthening effect of the ‘g’ in ‘Natalie Imbruglia’

Grammar Turkish, like Finnish and Hungarian , is an agglutinative language . It is known for having an abundance of suffixes and very few prefixes. Word order in Turkish is Subject Object Verb similar to Japanese and Latin , but unlike English .

Until 1928, Turkish was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script known as the Ottoman Turkish script. In 1928, as part of his efforts to modernize Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk issued a decree replacing the Arabic script with a version of the Latin alphabet, which has been used ever since. Writing system Until 1928 , Turkish was written using a modified version of the Arabic alphabet . Since 1928, writing system is based on Latin alphabet.